1307 Incense bait pierces the heart
In the large camp of Qiangjin, the troops occupying this area are busy dismantling various camp defenses and then rearranging them, especially moving some of the fortifications that originally faced the river to the south almost entirely.
Although before the Jin army entered the camp, the Jin army guards had destroyed some important killing weapons and were difficult to put into use, some materials were still left, and even if they could not be renovated and restored, they could be disassembled and repurposed.
And even the most arrogant generals of the Jin army have to admit that the level of the Jin army is far superior to them in terms of fortification. Although the battalion was eventually lost, there was no problem in the battalion's defense, but the Jin army's thousands of guards relied on this heavy defense, and in a very short period of time, they wiped out more than their multiple of the strength of the Qiang army, and the slaughter was heart-wrenching.
If the Jin army wanted to firmly hold the fortification, they also tried their best to turn the defense of the Jin army camp into their own use, and some facilities that seemed to be quite ingenious even had to be carefully dismantled by the craftsmen accompanying the troops to draw down the structural drawings.
It can be seen that reckless impulsiveness and the like, that is also relatively speaking, in the face of the upcoming strong enemy of the Jin army, for the sake of their own lives, these pawns are also extraordinarily careful.
The army had suffered heavy losses in the attack, and then some of them had either fled or been swept downstream by the river, and now they still had more than 20,000 troops. But these troops, stationed in the Shui Shui Battalion, still seem to be somewhat underfilled.
In addition to many warehouse facilities, there are many supporting water dais, wharves and the like, and the scale is very large.
This is also one of the reasons why once the Jin army landed, it was difficult for the Jin army in the camp to hold on to stubbornly resist, the camp area was too big, and the various camps themselves were connected, and there was no strong and tenacious barrier. Once there is no navy as a sharp minions to contain the incoming enemy on the river, the entire Jinjin water camp will be a large and weak camp.
However, now it is no longer the Jin army that is facing this problem, but the army of the bird occupying the dove's nest. Moreover, the pressure that the Jin army had to face was even greater than that of the previous Jin army, in addition to facing the Jin army from all over the heart of Henan, they also had to guard against the back waterway being cut off by the Jin army coming from the east and west.
Since Shi Xuan dared to sneak attack such an eye-catching target, he was naturally not satisfied with just guarding Hejin. The best defense is to take the initiative to attack, and this is especially true for their cross-border warfare. What's more, the Qiangqi is an empty camp, and they urgently need to collect supplies on the spot.
Therefore, in the next few days, Shi Xuan did not make a mistake in Jin, and wanted to seize the opportunity of the surprise soldiers to obtain subsidies for people and goods around the city as quickly as possible.
When some of the soldiers had enough strength, and at the same time some of the war horses were sent across the river, on the third day, Shi Xuan began to personally lead the team to attack, with Jinjin as the center, and swept the Henan land in a radius.
The military momentum is like the momentum of water, and it likes to move but not to be quiet. Henan has abundant goods, and it is not only one of the intentions of Shi Hu's father and son to plan the war in the country, but also the subordinates and the soldiers know it very well, which is the biggest motivation for them to fight in the south.
Nowadays, on the east side of Jinjin, there is a camp that is more than ten hectares wide and has been specially opened up to gather and store the people and goods obtained by their men and horses from all walks of life.
This camp was originally a place where the Jin warships were anchored for rest and repair, and a huge river and lake lived in the middle, and around the lake were neatly arranged camps, where the boatmen lived. But it's empty now. Some of the shipwrights who had been stationed here had already fled westward, and the rest had died in the last stubborn resistance.
The failure to capture the skilled shipwrights of the Jin army was also one of the things that made Shi Xuan extremely angry. In his early years, he organized a large army to the south because of the country's strength, and the relevant talents followed his father Shi Hu to the south, and Yu Huai suffered heavy losses in the last battle, and then never recovered.
Shi Xuan was ordered this time, and another important task was to collect enough warships for the army, which really gave him a headache, and he didn't dare to ridicule his father for being a loser, and the first war destroyed the foundation of the southern water war of the Qiang Kingdom.
The reason why it is necessary to send troops in advance, in addition to grabbing merit, is also one of the reasons for the limitation of warships. Shi Xuan asked himself that he had done his best, but he still couldn't meet Shi Hu's request for a warship.
There were not enough warships to carry soldiers across the river, and even if the state gathered more troops in southern Hebei, it could not fully give full play to the advantages of these forces, and the carrying capacity was directly locked up.
If Shi Hu came south, in the case of limited transportation capacity, the first thing to invest in must be the choice of elite soldiers in his mind, if he really wants such a comparison, I am afraid that Shi Tao's elite Taiwei Mansion will come south in order before Shi Xuan's plain army. Even if the war goes smoothly, when it is Shi Xuannan's turn, it is just a matter of following the rear of the armies to get a little leftovers.
The warships, which were already scarce, were blocked on the river for almost an hour and bombed indiscriminately because the river defense was too ferocious, and the losses were inevitably even heavier. Later, after a little statistics, more than one-third of the warships were directly lost outside the Jinjin, and the losses of these warships were far more distressing than the losses of the soldiers.
Not only is it distressed, but it is also a little panicked. The warship he originally raised could not meet his father's requirements, but because of his rash Meng Lang, he directly lost so much, and when the time came, the empty army could only look at the river and sigh, how his father would treat him, there was no need to think about it at all.
Therefore, after leading his troops to sweep the surrounding area of Zhuan, Shi Xuan hurriedly returned to Jinjin and sat in Shuiying to repair the transportation capacity.
Even if a lot of them were transferred before, they still left a considerable scale, and they were moored in several harbors around Jinjin.
Regardless of the sampan flying boat and the like for the time being, there are more than a dozen medium-sized ships alone, of course, the style is mostly ordinary cargo ships, which may not be suitable for water warfare, but with such a background under the eyes of the country, it will not pay attention to these, if you can cross the river with a tree, you will simply come with a big tree in your arms. There are still ships at the moment, what else is there to be faulted with!
But what made Shi Xuan vomit blood was that these ships were almost without exception damaged, or the hull was gouged, or the key machine was smashed, even if there was still a general skeleton style, but if it was not repaired, it would be difficult to sail on the wide river, let alone carry armor soldiers and even have to engage in water warfare.
"Repair! If you can't repair these ships, fill the holes with your flesh and bones! ”
Shi Xuan viciously ordered, for the current situation, obtaining enough transportation capacity is not enough just to meet his father's requirements, but also to ensure that he has no worries about the future and orderly advance and retreat.
As he captured the fort, the next day, there were some sporadic Jin boats and boats from the slipway upstream, so that he palpitated, lest his more than 20,000 troops would be intercepted south of the Yellow River before the reinforcements from Hebei arrived.
Although he still has some warships in hand, these ships can only carry the sergeant back to Hebei, if he leaves in such a hurry, what is the point of him coming south? Just to take advantage of the autumn outing, by the way, send 10,000 lives to the Jin army to be killed?
"The topography of Henan is really strange. If I can't make a big profit this time, my father and son may not be able to peep into this side for the rest of their lives! ”
Although it is difficult to hide the mania in his bones, as time goes by, Shi Xuan does not dare to be more optimistic.
Obviously, this time he took the enemy by surprise and led a large army to the south to take the key points, and directly forced the heart of the Jin State and Henan to be in the heart, which should be a feat to make his army's morale rise and the enemy to death at the same time, but why did he not feel the slightest happiness, but had a sense of anxiety and crisis like a thorn in his back?
The reasons why Shi Xuan was able to figure it out were that the tenacity and inner weakness of the Jinjin were beyond his imagination, and the price to pay was too great, but what he got was only the Hejin of the Jinjin, and the strategic significance of the Hejin could not be exchanged in the short term, at least before the Hebei back army came to Henan, it could not play its value.
As for the second point, the Jin people seem to be too calm. Shi Xuan previously swept the surroundings of Jinjin, in addition to collecting people and goods, another point was to explore the enemy's situation, once he found that there was a Jin army who was anxious to rescue and went straight in, he would seize the opportunity to eat it quickly!
But after some sweeping, it was not that no trace of the Jin army was found, but those Jin troops were either in danger, or the surrounding departments cooperated, and they did not give Shi Xuan a chance to swallow it alone. If it was swept up, it was only to uproot some insignificant small strongholds in the countryside, and as for the real strength of the Jin army, none of them were wiped out.
Without the opportunity to fight, Shi Xuan could not take this opportunity to find out the reality of the Jin army of each army, and he did not know the reality and fought rashly, if he kicked on the iron plate, he more than 20,000 people, maybe he would be explained in Henan.
The sneak attack on the Pier was originally to compete for the first place with surprise, and through such a sudden attack, the arrangement of the Jin army between Qingyan and Qing Yan was disrupted, and then took this opportunity to strive for greater fighters and results. As a result, the cold reaction of the Jin army from all walks of life in a step-by-step and orderly manner made Shi Xuan can't help but wonder, is it important or not to the Jin army? Or is it just a bait placed in Henan?
But no matter what the situation is, Shi Xuan also knows that he can't let the situation continue to develop like this, once the various departments of the Jin army are closely woven and cover him in the Jinjin and can't move, he really wants to cry without tears.
So at the moment, he was especially hoping that Shi Tao's black cavalry dragon army would come south as soon as possible and become a bayonet to pierce the iron shell cast by the Jin army around Jinjin.